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Welcome to the forum, Sharky2006.

What are your advertised speeds?

Please check out the "Make It Faster" sticky here: http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=2097.0

First of all, please post your advertised package speed just so we know.. Second of all, download Cablenut and then download the latest of Van Buren's settings from this forum topic.. Did you have such problems with speed before or did this happen just now?

You can feel free to play around with a couple of different files that are close to your connection speeds.  After you apply one, save to registry, and reboot, try another download test.  Start a notepad file with your results and try another cablenut file until you find the one that works best for you.

Cablenut doesnt help me either

sharky ur a retard they dont give u 3/768 u have to ask for it u have to be ABLE to get it i know u think u have it i did 2 but im not able to get 3/768 u might not be either call them say tech support then say other then ask them for upgrade to 3 Mbps then they will transfer u to billing ~MUST CALL DURING WEEKDAYS BEFORE 6 PM~

hey and ignore the percent they use the FiOs internet speeds also so urs is good

ok buddy but i had messed up internet for a LOONG time until verizon found out they were messing my internet up i had 70Kbps and increased it to 90 now i have 180Kbps

FYI.
I have improved my scores considerably.

Check out these scores (...with verizon DSL 1.5/384).....

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 13171 Kbps about 13.2 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1608 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2)
Test Time:: Sat Jan 14 2006 23:42:06 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Bottom Line:: 235X faster than 56K 1MB download in 0.64 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 179.16 % faster than the average for host (verizon.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-EPT4XG9OZ

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 394 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 48 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server1)
Test Time:: Sat Jan 14 2006 23:52:19 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 21.33 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 62.24 % of your hosts average (verizon.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-TF92NZMBD

I am at 13.2 Mbps/0.4Mbps now because of a freeware program I used.  Reputable at that....

I actually used Google Web Accelerator.  But it is caching stuff...

...may sound like a stupid question, but how does it do more harm than good?  Is it harming my system in any way? 

Thanks.  I appreciate that.  I may be overdoing it with spyware paranoia so I actually clean my computer daily with Spybot, Adaware, MS Antispyware, and I also have 2 anti virus programs AVG and Norton Corporate edition.

Just my 2 cents here:  I used CableNut sometime back for all 3 of my systems, and it gave me a slight improvement on all of them, using some of VanBuren's custom settings.  Something changed somewhere recently, I'm guessing something Verizon related since all 3 of my systems were affected.  Speeds got horrible.  After a month, I'm not fixed totally, but found that lowering my RWIN lower than either CableNut, TweakTester, or even the Windows default, has helped, at least to nearby test sites.  High RWIN's give me good results only to distant sites.  The point is, every setup is different.  That I have to set my RWIN so low is something that none of these tweaking programs probably never consider because it really doesn't make sense.  None of them have a preconfigured setting with an RWIN of 13068, which is what I need right now.  Why?  Because 99% of the time it would probably cripple a broadband connection.  Anyone with any real experience playing around with computers should know that there are always those situations that leave even the experts scratching their heads trying to come up with an answer that really isn't there.  Some things are just the way they are, just because that's the way they are.

Anyway, to say the program is junk, is wrong.  It does what it is supposed to do: it allows you to easily change various registry settings that relate to broadband connections.  It never crashes, and never screws up your computer.  The values you enter screw up your computer.  If those values don't help, you have every option to remove them, and find and enter ones that do.